Jetpack: Likes: Invalid CSS issue causing un-necessary 404 Request
I noticed Jetpack was causing a 404 HTTP request. This line in css/jetpack.css seems to be causing it:
@font-face{font-family:"Open Sans";src:url('"https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans"')}
It seems like it's from modules/likes/style.css even though it's properly formatted there. It's probably related to build system.
asadkn
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Also reported here:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jetpack-css-404-error-in-site-statistics/
And in 3310395-t
danjjohnson
on 7 Jul 2017
3309853-t
Someone shared a quick fix on the link shared by @danjjohnson
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jetpack-css-404-error-in-site-statistics/
Quick fix until JetPack issues a patch: remove the offending line from the file wp-content/plugins/jetpack/css/jetpack.css, i.e. remove line
@font-face{font-family:”Open Sans”;src:url(‘”https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans”‘)}
And add a line in your header (in the <head></head> section) saying
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans" rel="stylesheet">
omkarscode
on 7 Jul 2017
Also reported here: 3311161-t
seejacobscott
on 7 Jul 2017
Also reported here: 3311033-t
madhattermattic
on 7 Jul 2017
And in 3311085-t
madhattermattic
on 7 Jul 2017
@codestor4 yep that was me. I'm not a css expert though, so I'm not sure what the permanent fix would have to be.
Ne0Logic
on 8 Jul 2017
reported here: 3313062-t
seejacobscott
on 8 Jul 2017
Seeing errors here 3311730-t
pmciano
on 9 Jul 2017
Reported 3312581-t
pmciano
on 10 Jul 2017
3313123-t
omkarscode
on 10 Jul 2017
I don't think we need to continue to report impacted users. The cause is known and we should advise folks it'll be fixed in an upcoming release.
kraftbj
on 10 Jul 2017
FYI, on sites using Open Sans (ex with the TwentyTwelve theme), this also causes a delay in rendering the site text, as the browser tries to load the broken URL first before falling back to the URL specified in the theme stylesheet. Applying the fix takes care of the invisible text problem as well.
I don't care nearly as much about the extra 404 as I do about my text being visible immediately instead of after a several second delay.
kvibber
on 19 Jul 2017
@kvibber Thanks for the report. I hadn't heard that particular symptom of this. I've upgraded this and the patch to blocker status to ensure we get it in the next release.
kraftbj
on 19 Jul 2017
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I don't think we need to continue to report impacted users. The cause is known and we should advise folks it'll be fixed in an upcoming release.